More tales of crime and mystery, those who walk crooked paths and pay the price. People on the spot, when things have taken a bad turn. A young woman facing a deadly challenge. A man who walks into the wrong bar with the wrong attitude. A boxer who refuses to quit. A DA with a grudge. A rich man who finds his motives questioned by the police. These are the stories of the darker side of life.

A collection of four mystery short stories, Night Shift, Lincoln City Blues, The Priest and Leduc, and one novellette, Jules, by the author of the Mendenhall Mysteries series and The Ghosts of Morocco.

One definition of noir is “no happy endings.” In this short story collection by award-winning author, Warren Bull, don’t expect any last-minute reprieves - it isn’t going to happen. Dark desires spiral inexorably down toward disaster. Bad choices lead to dangerous consequences, and a sucker never gets an even break.

The Fall of Autumn is a special variety of short stories with surprising twists of murder mysteries. The stories enhance the readers in unexpected events that bring them to unexpected conclusions. The stores are enriched with moments that will take the readers to surprising and twisted heights.

July 28th, 1999 was a year to never forget. A two year deputy sheriff working the mid-shift comes face to face with death. The threat he faces is not from any criminal on the street. His arch enemy this night is Mother Nature. You don't want to mess with Mother Nature!

14-plus murder mysteries, each solved in four minutes or less by a Key West original, an ex- NYPD homicide detective named Wharton “Four Fingers” Dalessandro. In between bar hopping, playing chess, and occasional housepainting jobs, he nails the bad guy (or gal). One finger missing on his right hand doesn’t get in the way of this leftie Sherlock Holmes. “Fun puzzlers.....

Megan Scott recognizes one of two notorious prison escapees and follows him through the Old Port of Montreal, convinced that her photographic evidence will lead to his capture. Just as the escapee disappears aboard a yacht in the marina, another man forces Megan aboard the same yacht at knifepoint.
Gagged, tied, and terrified, she witnesses a murder. Will she be next?

Police Officer Patti Johnson is torn between duty and lost love. The fugitive hiding in the ladies room of the Pizza Hut is the only man she ever loved. Has he come back to her and will all her dreams finally come true? A short story.

Set in an alternate earth in the year 2050, Detective Vic Vicious is brought out of cryogenic prison to solve a string of brutal homicides torturing Los Angeles. When a woman is found on her back in a dark alley with her nether regions stitched together, it takes a man like Detective Vic to solve the case. Or will the case solve him?

In English, the Japanese word キラー or Kirā, means killer... And for one Japanese-American woman, daughter of a prominent Japanese real estate giant, suffering from childhood abandonment issues due to her mother’s untimely death, and antisocial personality disorder, or ASPD, is about to unleash her deadly ill will on the unsuspecting, well-to-do doctors, in and around Miami.

When a stranger walks into the neighborhood bar, The Fine Kettle O’Fish, Finn and the others aren’t sure what to think of him--at first.
Soon, it’s apparent that Malcolm, the new guy, is bothering everyone’s favorite striptease artist, Violet, who has had a rough time climbing out of the gutter. Something is lurking in Mal’s past, and something has to be done. A short story.

Huey Dusk is a clown, but he’s no joke. In this caper he searches for the murderer of a beloved televangelist and ends up uncovering a conspiracy involving money, greed, government intrigue and a deadly dwarf clown assassin.

Like most house cats, Amos isn't owned by anybody, but he owns a human named Jeff. When Jeff's life is threatened, Amos has a reason for being a hero. If Jeff were to die, who would feed Amos, clean his litter box, brush his fur and generally look after him? So Amos takes matters into his own hands – or rather his own claws and teeth - and does the job. A short story.

Matthew is getting tired of waiting for the cancer to finally claim his eccentric aunt Annemarie. So he decides to help nature take its course… by adding some morphine to Annemarie's beloved tea. Beth is fond of the milk jug that is a family heirloom, but her boyfriend Ryan disagrees. Two short tales of family heirlooms, inheritances, tea and murder of 4400 words altogether.